Sometimes there are just too many darn sequels to a film and we get tired of seeing the same thing again and again.

The worst offenders are definitely horror movies. You can lose count of the number of sequels to “The Amityville Horror”, “Hellraiser”, “A Nightmare On Elm Street”, “Halloween”, “Friday The 13th”, “Saw”, “Child’s Play”, “Paranormal Activity”, “Final Destination”, “Phantasm”, “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and even “Leprechaun”. You may have wanted to watch people get tortured with ‘games’ by the sadistic Jigsaw killer in the first “Saw” but did you really want to watch that again and again and again. Seriously, the guy must be running out of Wille E. Coyote style traps.

However, horror movies are not the only type of films where sequels get pumped out like there is no tomorrow. There were ten “Star Trek” films prior to the 2009 reboot. While some came out while there was no “Star Trek” on television, “Star Trek V: The Final Frontier” through to “Star Trek: Nemesis” all came out while there was some form of “Star Trek” on television. Sometimes, there were even multiple “Star Trek” shows on. While none of the “Star Trek” films are truly terrible, it’s no wonder that audiences were finding it hard to keep up with all the “Star Trek” content out there.

Other franchises that have suffered from oversaturation include “Police Academy” and “Scary Movie”. While it is debatable whether or not the first entries in either of these series were good, most can agree that we did not need a ton of sequels. There were seven “Police Academy” films as well as two television series (a live-action one and an animated one). There were five instalments in the “Scary Movie” series and we also got a bunch of spin-off sequels including “Disaster Movie”, “Epic Movie” and “Superhero Movie” because apparently, we needed more rubbish with Leslie Nielsen (“The Naked Gun”) and the Wayans family.

Some blockbuster franchises suffer from the same problem. Did we beg for five Michael Bay “Transformers” movies? For some reasons these films still make a ton of money at the box-office despite everybody complaining about them so it looks like Michael Bay is set to give us more.

Also, I cannot leave without mentioning “The Fast and the Furious” films. Essentially, it’s like drugs for petrolheads and there have been eight films so far (nine if you include a spin-off). It seems watching bald men drive fast cars sells so we are unlikely to see the Sun set on this series for the foreseeable future.